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United States says it was deeply alarmed at reports of the military takeover.

State Department spokesman Ned Price on Monday said the US was halting $700 million in aid and would consider all measures to hold Sudans military rules to account.

Sudan was gripped with uncertainty after military agents detained PM Hamdok.

The top U.S. envoy took to Twitter to announce his alarm over reports of a military coup in Sudan targeting the country's tenuous transitional government.

In a coup on Monday morning, the armed forces detained the prime minister and other top civilian officials. A transitional government had been preparing the country for full civilian leadership for the first time in three decades.

The joint military forces, the ministry said in a statement on Facebook, also detained civilian members of Sudan’s ruling council and ministers in Hamdok’s transitional government.

'Coup' in Sudan: What we know

There have been multiple reports of a military coup in Sudan, with the Information Ministry saying on its official Facebook page that Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok had been taken away to an unknown location. Other members of the government are also said to have been detained, according to broadcaster Al-Hadath…

The head of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, has declared a State of Emergency in the country after the military seized power in a dawn coup in Khartoum today. Minister Abdallah Hamdok, as well as several civilian members of the Sovereignty Council have been placed under arrest and all organs of civilian government have been suspended.

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